Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman swimming team will meet Rindge Technical School at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A., Central Square, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. This is the first meet the Freshmen have had this year. Prospects for a successful season are good, the best men being Captain Jackson, Swayze, Hubbard, and Leonard in the sprints, Jackson and McNear in the diye and Merrick in the plunge...
...field events. Year after year a combination of sterling runners has been forced to content itself with a reputation of mediocrity in intercollegiate standing simply because of pitiable weakness in the field events. Curiously enough these five events require far less natural ability than is necessary to be a good runner. Faithful practice by a man of ordinary aptitude will in any one of these events lead to a degree of proficiency that will enable him to be of use to the team. And yet there are dozens of men with the requisite brawn who are content to do nothing...
Practice for the Freshman hockey team will begin in earnest as soon as the ice in the Stadium rinks is in good condition. The rinks have been thoroughly flooded and frozen, but as yet the ice has not been firm enough to prevent its softening during...
...club received an especially enthusiastic reception in New York and won much favorable comment. The book was good and worked up into a reputable plot, as musical comedies go. The singing was on the whole excellent and although it savored at times of the regular college burlesque, still there was a marked absence of the dramatic barbarisms which too often overflow undergraduate theatricals. The chorus was most attractive, the "girls" wearing their clothes naturally and dancing extremely well...
...battalions of eight companies each, to be trained as infantry. Infantry training, said Captain Cordier, is the basis of all other military work, and is useful in all arms of the service. The aim will be to train as many men as possible to become, with additional work, good company officers. The more complicated work necessary for higher officers will not be treated. The instruction will be divided into theoretical and practical work. It is hoped that experts in the various arms of the service will talk on their branches and several have already been secured...